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A slightly early look at August issue of Dragon Age magazine, out in Japan July 9th, has revealed that Kenji Saitō and Akinari Nao's action harem series Trinity Seven is scheduled to be adapted into an anime movie.

Pokemon Go has finally launched, and trainers are quickly filling up their Pokedex. . . with Zubats! In the world of Pokemon Go, it's not as simple as going out and catching Pokemon. The chance of you seeing certain Pokemon depend on several facto...

Big-bust apparel project raises big bucks. Earlier this week, Feast, Japan's most prominent provider of lingerie for women with petite busts, rolled out its latest line of intimate apparel. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum, Heart Clo...

It's that time of year again - when otaku from all over the Americas and beyond come to Los Angeles for a 4-day long celebration of anime, manga and gaming! Anime Expo (AX) 2016 took place from July 1-4 at its traditional location, the Los Angeles...

It will be her first full album in eight years. Announced tracks include "Manatsu No Tooriame," which is now the theme song of a Japanese news show, "Hanataba Wo Kimini," which was the theme for a TV drama, and "Sakura Nagashi," which was the them...

Few children's novels have achieved the level of notoriety that Lewis Carroll's Alice duology has - 1864's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 follow up, Through the Looking Glass have been the inspiration for more spin-offs than can be ...

Aine-"Wait did we have sex? " Kizuna-"Uhhh I think we did? " Another giant boob fighting anime! Last season we got Hundred and now Masou Gakuen HxH, but will it actually be different? Probably not! The last two boob swords I liked were Shinmai Mao...

Law & Order, CSI, True Detective: America loves its police shows, all right, but it doesn't have a lock on genre by any means. To prove the point, ranking site Goo has asked its readers to list their 20 favorite police anime.

Japanese-American singer Utada Hikaru, known for themes to Rebuild of Evangelion, Kingdom Hearts and her then-husband's live-action Casshern, has scheduled her first album in the better part of a decade.

Goodness. Here is a look at the official Catbus for really big kids. You know, grown-ups. Above, via Twitter user Icecream 37, we get a look at the outside (and inside) of the newly unveiled bus. Previously, Kotaku reported that a Studio Ghibli ex...

Publisher PQube announced today that Senran Kagura series producer Kenichiro Takaki's PS Vita action game Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni is headed Westward in 2016. About Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni: In the world of Valkyrie Drive, a group of girls have ...

Good Smile Company's Good Smile Online Shop today started accepting pre-orders for its Nendoroid Hatsune Miku: Shishimai/Lion Dance Ver. figure for a December 2016 release. Its prototype based on an illustration by verus is produced by Nd_dog at G...

With a life-sized Totoro, a cat bus for adults, and an enormous airship that floats up and down, this exhibition will spirit you away to the magical world of Ghibli. After reading all the news updates and anxiously counting down the days to the op...

The support cast joining previously announced leads Miyu Irino (Mr. Osomatsu's Todomatsu) and Saori Hayami (Monogatari's Yotsugi Ononoki) have been announced for the fall feature anime adaptation of A Silent Voice.

Time to play a New Game! Time for some more first impression posts on the new summer season! and I remember checking out the 4koma manga for New Game a while back and found it to be more about cute girls doing cute things and not so much about cre...

The official website of "Musical Bio Hazard ~Voice of Gaia~," the upcoming stage musical adaptation of Capcom's survival horror action game Bio Hazard (Resident Evil in the West), has posted a two-minute PR video to introduce its main cast in thei...

It doesn't happen too often but we've seen it before where a regional broadcaster pulls the plug on a show because it pushes the envelope a bit too far for their tastes. It usually happens before the first episode, though, as the local broadcaster...

The Kickstarter campaign for the original Muv-Luv visual novel trilogy, which raised $1. 2 million of its initial $250,000 goal, is only a week away from the launch of the English version of the mech rom-com, turned far less comedic series.

"If there are people who feel uncomfortable. . . it's my responsibility" WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the ending of Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear. The ending of the anime series Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear was largely received negativel...

NMB48 unveiled preview music videos for new single Boku wa Inai (僕はいない). The single features graduating key member Watanabe Miyuki as center. Their 15th single Boku wa Inai comes on five editions scheduled for release on August 3rd 2016.

A new trailer for the video-game-turned-anime series "Danganronpa" was recently revealed by NBC Universal. The short clip gives fans a brief insight of what to expect in "Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy.

Variety is reporting that GKids, who has broughts Studio Ghibli movies including Princess Kaguya and When Marnie Was There to America, has acquired U. S. distribution rights to Production I. G. and Keiichi Hara's (director of Colorful and Summer D...

Kobushi Factory continue to follow up on their brilliant rookie season with the MV for "Bacchikoi Seishun! " from their 3rd triple A-side single "Samba! Kobushi Janeiro/Bacchikoi Seishun! /Ore wa Ninkimono" (release date: July 27)!

A battle task force of pretty boys (who are also a band) fight inter-dimensional monsters called "Nightfly O'Note" by fusing with elemental creatures. Iro's verdict: Not Dumb Enough This show could have been a thousand times more entertaining if i...

This announcement is for a new series called ViVid Strike! A new Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime that will air this October. A new site announcing the anime was launched today. This announcement is kind of a complicated one.

By Jenni . July 7, 2016 . 10:25am Another The King of Fighters XIV team has been introduced. Atlus and SNK Playmore have released a trailer for Team Mexico, which is made up of Angel, the King of Dinosaurs, and Ramon.

Posted 08/07/2016 Every time you think that the summer simulcast bucket is about to run dry, someone appears to fill it a little further, and yesterday brought us two more Crunchyroll announcements to ensure that our cup runneth over.

By Jenni . July 7, 2016 . 10:00am Capcom has finalized the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release date for the Resident Evil 4 rerelease. The game will come to both systems on August 30, 2016. This version will be the ultimate release, with additional...

An early look at next week's issue of Weekly Shonen Jump has revealed that Gintama chapter 595 has declared that the story is entering into its final arc. In December, anime cast member Rie Kugimiya read a message from author Hideaki Sorachi about...

(c) 2016, The Japan News/Yomiuri. TOKYO - An English translation of a biography of manga legend Osamu Tezuka has been published in the United States and will be available in Japan soon. Translations of the manga-format biography, "Tezuka Osamu Mon...